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... IN 1897-Located in District No. 2, this school closed in 1917 and is no longer standing. Charles Town Academy before its destruction in 1912. , J I STONE SCHOOL-Charles Town's first free school was built on land acquired in 1849. Sold in 1894, it eventually was renovated to beco...
... in ulpepper aunty until I 807 when they moved to Walnut Grove, 3 mile 11orth of Cl1arles Town then Virginia. Uncle Charles writes in 1807: I said that when you arrived at Walnut Grove you were to take the mana gement of everything upon your elf' witl1out being accountable to me ...
... he had come with Major Thomas Jonathan Jackson and a squad of V.M.I. cadets to help keep Charles Town quiet during the hanging of John Brown. The John Brown raid made a profound change in the thinking of the Lower Valley of the Shenandoah. Until then most of its citizens were op...
...y be those who know and love the old and carry it over into the new." The Wilson House In Charles Town i '· } • r. I .,. • The Victorian Gothic house built by William Lyne Wilson in 1876-1877. From a water color by Jeff Ridgeway. Just beyond the south wall of Zion Episcopal Churc...
...ate Army. At the end of the war he returned home and in 1871 began the practice of law in Charles Town. For two years he was superintendent of the Jefferson County Schools. His career as president of West Virginia University, and as a member of the Congress for six terms, where h...
...umber, and contains pertinent information . Research in the bound volumes of the Shepherdstown REGISTER has brought to light a newspaper article dated May 26, 1927. H.L. Snyder, then the editor of this highly esteemed weekly, kept his readers informed of events in all of Jefferso...
...ety appeared as articles in this issue. Volume I had 55 pages and.was printed in Shepherdstown. The Society continued its regular meetings though we are not sure how many were held each year .. ,Mr. Kenamond continued as president and editor until 1950. Major T.T. Perry, Jr. then...
... to become a member. The person wishing to enroll should write to the Society at Box 485, Charles Town, enclosing a check for dues made to the Jefferson County Historical Society. It is important to include the address to which cards and the MAGAZINE should be mailed. It is also ...
...t to be Richard Pearis, and was another impossible tale, as Richard Pearis was in jail in Charles Town, as a Tory. He was there from December 1775 until July 12, 1776. Upon release he took an oath of allegiance to the American cause, and arriving at Col. Williamson's camp, then b...
... 1836-1909. Known as the ''Poet of the Shenandoah Valley," his home was at Rion Hall near Charles Town. After the Civil War he practiced law in Charles Town, was elected to the State Legislature and was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
...am J. Barnhart ................................... 45 Richard Edmonston Venning, M.D. and Charles Town's First Hospital .............................. 47 Shepherdstown Is Active in Preservation ...................... 56 Charles Town Historic Landmarks Commission ................ ...
... for $ I 0,000 to a group who enlarged and remodelled the building. Now it was called The Charles Town General Hospital. Evidently this enlargement included both the third floor and the taller structure on the east side which contained the operating room on the third floor. Mrs. ...
...ng, lots #39 and 40 (less right of way) on 10/14/1901 for $4000.00. R.E. Venning et ux to Charles Town General Hospital ½ lots #39 and 40 on 2/19/1912. Charles Town General Hospital to C.M. and Florence H. Moore, that certain parcel of land etc. on 11 / 14 / 1949 Florence H. Moor...
...ern hown by the West Virginia Department of Highway over the detrimental impact which the Charles Town bypass and its approaches could have on nearby historic landmarks. As is generally known hou es listed in the National Register of Historic Places are protected again t incursio...
30 The Magazine of the Charles Town Historic Landmarks Commission The site of the John Brown execution, located off South Samuel Street, has been designated as an historic landmark. The John Brown raid occurred in October of 1859 and resulted in his capture, imprisonment, and sub...
...iam Myers, Trustees of Star Lodge No. l, Ancient York Free and Accepted Masons Colored at Charles Town, and George W. Green, Lewis Rutherford and Robert Ford, Trustees of Queen of the Valley Lodge No. 1558. Independent Order of Odd Fellows Colored at Charles Town. Subsequently, i...
...lms. Many old elms have been and continue to be destroyed. The century old elm at the Old Charles Town Library had to be removed because of disease. Pride In Action replaced this tree with a large Magnolia and added a Dogwood and Japanese Maple. A ward citations have been designe...
58 The Magazine of the Thornton T. Perry, II, Room Old Charles Town Library, Inc. Society members and others interested in the history of the Shenandoah Valley the Virginias, and the United States will be interested in the establishment of the Perry Room by the Board of Directors...
.... Hensil 7 W.S. Magruder 8 S.D. Hurst 9 J.H. Engle 10 (not stated) LOCAL DESIGNATION Kabletown Company Holl's Pump Company Charles Town Market House Company Charles Town Smithfield Company Shepherdstown Company Leetown Company Halltown Company North Bolivar Company (No designatio...
...son County municipalities obtained new charters under the laws of West Virginia: Shepherdstown on 11 February 1867. 12 ''Charles Town'' on 24 February 1872, 13 Harpers Ferry on 16 April 1872, 14 and Bolivar on 27 March 1877. 15 The Chartering of Ranson on 18 October 1910 16 raise...
...by G-d!'' This gibberish he repeated while being tied to a horse and conducted to jail in Charles Town. Yet no witnesses ever testified that he was drunk. In Charles Town Cox made voluntary confessions, one to Thomas Griggs, the Commonwealth Attorney, and another to Robert T. Bro...
...n. Sullivan which you delivered to Col. Simpson whilst he was in command of the forces at Charlestown, Va. Answer: It was on the afternoon of the 14th of October It was reported (5] to General Sullivan that Col. Simpson had his wagons packed, his regiment in line, and was moving,...
...n of subscribers. The first is by dedicated board member, Mr. A.M.S. Morgan, II, entitled Charles Town, 1912-1924: A Boy's Eye View of Charles Town and Its People. It is a wonderful essay of boyhood recollections that will become an historical source for the community. Mr. Morgan...
...Fences were all burned and trash heaped everywhere. Mr. Sadler, who was the undertaker in Charlestown, went to his shop back of his place the next morning and found the dead body of Mr. Frank Butler lying on some board outside. Butler had been killed in the battle and some comrad...
...0th Tour, 1975. 9. HOME OF MR. AND MRS. F. N. WHITE Location: 403 East Washington Street, Charles Town. This large and handsome house was built on two lots which had been laid out by Charles Washington when he planned the town in 1780. The lots changed hands fourteen times before...
...e know that ''Mr. Sturges'' preached once a month (he had other congregations in Shepherdstown and elsewhere in the parish); that General Horatio Gates' wife was buried in the churchyard in 1783 (vandals and time have erased all signs of the burial ground which was on the right (...
...amed ''Ed.'' They kept the toll house on this side. Following Princess street out towards Charles Town (now towards the N. & W. freight station) stood the residence of Wm. Bowen and Eli Conley on the north side, the Conleys owning a very large property with an extensive garden fr...
...s off, not in the direction of Bellefonte, but, as I surmised, more nearly in the line of Townville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where I had an old schoolmate. I resolved, without, of course, telling our host, that we would go to Wakefield's. We had before this deter1nined wha...
............................................................................ 5 Growing Up In Charles Town: History and Memory, by S a ul Viener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
...airman. In due course, the committee and board asked Mrs. Thomas Claiborne Green Coyle of Charles Town to be the Society's president, and she graciously consented to assume the position. Mrs. Coyle, nee Nancy Casto, is a native of Charleston, West Virginia. After attending Kanawh...
...y III ................................................................................ 19 Charles Town's Initiative: The Building of Old Charles Town Library and Civic Center, 1965 by Sus an M . Co 11 ins ..............................................................................
... Series 1 :297 16 1870 United States Census of Manufacturers. 17 Vi,·ginia F,·ee P,·ess. (Charles Town: West Virginia, September 24, 1870). 18 StJi1·it of Jeffe,·son. (Charles Town: We t Virginia, September 10, 1872). 19 Pursell, The Mac·hine i,1 An1e,·ica, p. 93.
...Alexander, lived much as a widow would live in black mourning dress to a great old age in Charles Town. The Alexanders, who were so very prominent around Charles Town in the period, shall we say, from 1850 to 1950, were all descendants of this couple.'' Jane Charlotte Blackburn W...
I 16 Notes and Sources Charles Town Academy 1852,1853 Class Rosters 1939.00028-Powe,~s Collection Clarke County Histo,~ical Association The Magazine of the This hard back, school workbook was given to the Association by the family of Philip H. Powers, who was a staff officer for ...
...h time the school will be opened. A. Jewitt, Sec'y P. Tern Van Bennett, Prestem Shepherds Town 25 Nov. 1812 Agreeable to an adjournment, five of the Trustees met, To wit: James Brown, Van Bennett Daniel Buckle , Robert Worthington & P. Marmaduke and Charles Rutz and John Briscoe,...
...the late 1820s to early 1830s for the merchant John Newton Lane before moving to Shepherdstown with Lane's new mercantile business about 1835. Markell then took over the business in 1840, a business called Webb & Markell, with partner Willoughby L Webb, Lane's nephew also from La...
...ending a check or money order to: Jefferson County Historical Society Post Office Box 485 Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 Or through the Society website at: jeffersonhi toricalwv.org. All publication prices include po tage and handling. 1935-1964 $20 1965-1994 $15 1995-current ...
...f the Jefferson County Museum, it was obvious that a suitable home for the 'Chew' flag in Charles Town was now available. It had been the expressed wish of the Colonel' daughter, Miss Margaret Chew, that the flag be returned to Charles Town. In order to fulfill this wish, the com...
... a commute from West Virginia but I convinced him to go see the house on Samuel Street in Charles Town. The Brown-Shugart House was the untouched beauty of which I had dreamt about for years. The house was a traditional Victorian, filled with winding taircases and a footprint sim...
...ending a check or money order to: Jefferson County Historical Society Post Office Box 485 Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 Or through the Society website at: jeffersonhistoricalwv .org. All publication prices include postage and handling. 1935-1964 $20 1965-1994 $15 1995-current...
...ending a check or money order to: Jefferson County Historical Society Post Office Box 485 Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 Or through the Society website at: jeffer onhistoricalwv .org. All publication prices include postage and handling. 1935-1964 $20 1965-1994 $15 1995-current...
...d at the age of 52 years and 11 months (Mrs. J.M. Miller, ''Record of tomb 'tones out ide towns." [Charles Town, W.Va.: Charles Town Library, 1934])~ and March 29, 1803, is about 52 years and 11 months from April 20, 1750.
...ending a check or money order to: Jefferson County Historical Society Post Office Box 485 Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 Or through the Society website at: jeffersonhistoricalwv .org. All publication prices include postage and handling. 1935-1964 $20 1965-1994 $15 1995-current...
...ending a check or money order to: Jefferson County Historical Society Post Office Box 485 Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 Or through the Society website at: jeffersonhistoricalwv.org. All publication prices include postage and handling. 1935-1964 $20 1965-1994 $15 1995-current ...
...tors of the Jefferson County Historical Society and board member and treasurer of the Old Charles Town Library, Inc. He researched transportation methods for the period 1735 -1835 and farm agriculture and labor forces (slave labor specifically) statistics in Virginia for John C. ...
...y darling Font who died at 12 M without a struggle - he was a noble boy - I sent Mason to town after dinner to see Sadler 25 about the funeral -I was in town at 6 PM at the Cemetery2 6 -H. Ferry yielded to our force to day 27 -& heavy fighting in Maryland Hooff's grief over the l...
...ending a check or money order to: Jefferson County Historical Society Post Office Box 485 Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 Or through the Society website at: jeffersonhistoricalwv.org. All publication prices include postage and handling. 1935-1964 $20 1965-1994 $15 1995-current ...
...with C. Aisquith, John Augustine realized his earlier ambition and opened a drug store in Charles Town. He left that business, which he said was too confining, to become a founding partner of the local insurance agency Washington & Alexander (which later became Washington, Alexan...
...hew Frame emigrated to America from Northern Ireland in the late 1700s. He settled in the Charles Town area and from the 1790s through at least 1812 Frame was a merchant to the local population. In 2012 the Jefferson County Museum acquired a copy of an extant account book that be...
...ending a check or money order to: Jefferson County Historical Society Post Office Box 485 Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 Or through the Society website at: jeffersonhistoricalwv.org. All publication prices include postage and handling. 1935-1964 $23 1965-1999 $18 2000-current ...
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